A young man approached a card table set up under the Green Line tracks on the city’s West Side and asked the woman behind it ...

Despite irrefutable pharmacological evidence of the wide range in individuals' metabolism of opioid drugs, states continue to impose "one-size-fits-none" laws. For example, Massachusetts, apparently ...

Opioids are a class of medications mostly used to treat pain. While they can improve your quality of life, opioids can be highly addictive. Although the words are often used interchangeably, there’s a ...

BOSTON – Mass and Cass – the Boston intersection that serves as the epicenter of the commonwealth’s substance abuse and homelessness problem – is the most visible example of a statewide problem that ...

The tragedy of the opioid epidemic provides a textbook example of what happens when a country allows unfettered access to 76 billion legally prescribed narcotic pain pills over seven years. The drugs ...

Early opioid withdrawal symptoms include restlessness, anxiety, insomnia, and muscle aches. Late opioid withdrawal symptoms are more serious and involve vomiting, diarrhea, and a rapid pulse.

Fortunately, the Maryland legislature passed several measures aimed at addressing the opioid crisis this year. The bills, which were signed into law by Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, provide a wide ...

This illustration image shows tablets of the opioid painkiller oxycodone. A novel non-opioid treatment for post-surgical pain, suzetrigine, is set to enter the market in 2025. Its uptake could be ...